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Title: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: CaptSlow on May 04, 2018, 03:31:22 AM
I remember playing Sidearms at a local convenience store when I was a kid, a few years before the TG16 was launched in the US. But I had no idea it was on the C64 as well. I found this while going through a big lot of stuff I recently picked up.

(https://image.ibb.co/dGaZtn/Unknown_1_copy.jpg)
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: tbone3969 on May 04, 2018, 03:40:57 AM
Pretty cool.  I like Sidearms.
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: Necromancer on May 04, 2018, 04:05:47 AM
Heh, neat.  How's it compare to the Turbob version?
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: CaptSlow on May 04, 2018, 04:12:19 AM
Quote from: Necromancer on May 04, 2018, 04:05:47 AM
Heh, neat.  How's it compare to the Turbob version?
Oh that I don't know. It is just the manual unfortunately.
Maybe I'll stick it with my PCE version of Sidearms I have since it is the hucard only.  :lol:
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: bob on May 04, 2018, 06:31:43 AM
really cool.  would love to see it in action.
looks like the 5.25 floppy is asking ~$100 for current active listings
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: spenoza on May 04, 2018, 06:42:42 AM
It was a 1986 arcade title. It hit C64 only a year before the Turbo.
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: CaptSlow on May 04, 2018, 06:51:14 AM
Quote from: spenoza on May 04, 2018, 06:42:42 AM
It was a 1986 arcade title. It hit C64 only a year before the Turbo.
Oh, well damn.
I was thinking it was earlier. I keep forgetting the C64 ran games into the 90s.
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: Purple1308 on May 04, 2018, 02:42:16 PM
Funny I just bought sidearms special for cheap. Which is weird getting use to the controls.

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Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: majors on May 05, 2018, 03:49:03 AM
One of my arcade fav's.

...better than Ordyne!
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: _joshuaTurbo on March 01, 2019, 01:25:58 PM
Quote from: majors on May 05, 2018, 03:49:03 AM
One of my arcade fav's.

...better than Ordyne!

This is incorrect.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: Punch on March 01, 2019, 05:40:39 PM
I love those early CPS sales flyers Capcom did which just translated the Japanese-y style catchphrases across the page verbatim. ULTIMATE COMBINATION ALPHA AND BETA!!!

(https://lscmainframe.kontek.net/features/origins/Falcon1.jpg)
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: Punch on March 01, 2019, 05:41:56 PM
This is the full color art from that manual btw:

(https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/capcom/10010301.jpg)
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: Black Tiger on March 02, 2019, 09:56:22 AM
The fold out manual poster for Sidearms Special was real treat bitd.
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: gex on March 04, 2019, 12:50:57 AM
Quote from: Black Tiger on March 02, 2019, 09:56:22 AM
The fold out manual poster for Sidearms Special was real treat bitd.
Oh what, NA SideArms came with a poster?
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: Black Tiger on March 04, 2019, 08:02:37 AM
Quote from: gex on March 04, 2019, 12:50:57 AM
Quote from: Black Tiger on March 02, 2019, 09:56:22 AM
The fold out manual poster for Sidearms Special was real treat bitd.
Oh what, NA SideArms came with a poster?

A local store in my hometown brought in some PC Engine CD games. They were the first CD games I bought for me Turbo-CD. It worked out great for me as a fan of the arcade version, as Sidearms for TG-16 was only released in the U.S.

The silkscreened discs and art-filled manual/cases really made Turbo-CD packaging feel dull.
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: nectarsis on March 04, 2019, 11:51:01 PM


I'm a fan of Sidearms (and always love reigniting the Josh/Majors endless debate...especially if alcohol in involved hehehehe}....but man that C64 version looks like ass


https://youtu.be/FHbtH59FbdA
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: majors on March 05, 2019, 09:03:26 AM
Quote from: nectarsis on March 04, 2019, 11:51:01 PM
... love reigniting the Josh/Majors endless debate...
IRL troll.

You'll have to defend it this year at MGC!